Change Log: Selecting people to help with Web accessibility

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Requirements, Notes, Brainstorms

Title: Selecting people to help with Web accessibility

Title: Notes and brainstorming

Alternate titles considered:

• Choosing a Web accessibility consultant
• expert, specialist, professional, authority,
• ? Evaluating Web accessibility expertise
• [wish list title] selecting and working with ...
• [wish list title] selecting and working with ...management consultant

Purpose

• Provide general guidance to the audience about factors to consider / questions to ask (both yourself and the contractor) when choosing/hiring/contracting Web accessibility evaluation expertise from
  • An accessibility specialist/expert/consultant/team/company
  • A Web developer or Web development company
  • A usability consultant or company
• Questions to ask when choosing/hiring/contracting Web accessibility evaluation expertise from the above
• Provide guidance on how to evaluate the credentials/experience//knowledge/tools/process of candidates.

Purpose: Notes and brainstorming

The following topic were suggested but considered to be outside the scope of (at least) the first draft. (Note: more question marks was intended to mean that the topic was considered further outside the scope of the original idea.)

• how do you find such expertise?
• how do you evaluate training expertise?
• how to set up the structure of a (consulting) agreement/contract??
• how do you evaluate the deliverables???
• how to choose a Web accessibility management consultant???

A possible alternative to providing detail about these interesting components would be to include a disclaimer about why we're not telling you about them (at this time)

Audience

The audience for this document may include:

Primary:

• Individuals, organizations or businesses wishing to design, develop, evaluate and/or repair to improve the accessibility of their Web sites (and by implication, who don't have people with the requisite skills at hand)

Audience: Notes and brainstorming

Is there a secondary audience for this document or does the primary audience definition suffice?

Use

For the WAI site - as a new resource in the "Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility" suite [http://www.w3.org/WAI/eval/]

Use: Notes and brainstorming

Should this document also be linked to from the "Implementation Plan for Web Accessibility" suite? [http://www.w3.org/WAI/impl/]

Meeting notes and brainstorming

At the EOWG face-to-face face-to-face meeting 01 March 2005 (Boston) it was decided that:

• There was enough interest in this resource to justify the development of a mini requirements document. Chuck Letourneau volunteered to develop the mini requirements.
• Any decision as to whether to proceed will be taken after review of the mini requirements and further discussion with EOWG, including consideration of its priority in EOWG's deliverable list.
• If the decision to proceed is made, a mini taskforce of EOWG members will be formed to develop and edit the document. (Volunteering at the face-to-face were: Chuck Letourneau, Justin Thorp, Andrew Arch, (others???))